"Rapists, polluters, and the like.
Know this. If you are eloquent, then we will protect you.
Hire Ropes and Gray, LLC, and if they lose
I will write a law overturning the verdict."
Posted on 03/12/2007 7:17:43 PM PDT by LdSentinal
(WBZ) BOSTON Governor Deval Patrick is facing questions over some contributions he received during his campaign for governor. The donations came from employees of two firms building a new development in Cambridge.
Two of the donors now work for the governor, and that's just one of the issues being raised.
Dan O'Connell and Greg Bialecki were both involved in the Northpoint development in Cambridge. O'Connell is now Patrick's Secretary of Housing and Development. Bialecki is one of Patrick's top aides involved in real estate permitting.
In February, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled against the Northpoint construction project in a lawsuit brought by a Cambridge neighborhood group. About three weeks later, the governor filed legislation that would reverse the court's ruling on development over tidelands.
Now we are learning that Governor Deval Patrick received more than $12,500 in campaign contributions from Northpoint's development firms last year. The Associated Press says O'Connell and Bialecki each donated $1,000.
Patrick is defending the bill, saying it was not directed at a single development but rather is for the sake of all coastal developments. He says that Bialecki and O'Connell were in no way involved in the legislation.
If the SJC's decision stands, Northpoint developers will have to rework their plan and add more parkland and civic space to the community.
The governor's bill still needs to pass in the House and the Senate before becoming a law.
Governor Deval Patrick makes his first public appearance Monday since he announced over the weekend that his wife Diane is battling depression and exhaustion. The governor said he plans to cut back on his long hours.
Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray is prepared to step up in the governor's absence.
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BOSTON - Gov. Deval Patrick received more than $12,500 in campaign contributions last year from employees of two firms working on the development of a mammoth Cambridge project that would benefit from a bill recently filed by the governor.
http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=187970
Barely two months into his term and this embattled governor already needs a sabbatical. It's going to be a long four years.
I hope he doesn't jump out a window.
If he was a Republican, he'd been forced to resign his office already.
How the Hell did this Clinton stooge get elected in the first place?
Yep, very long four years.
It sure is. For ALL of us !!!
The Deval is in the details.
Deval Patrick. Oh why could his last name be "Seyton"?
The way things are going for this guy, I'd be very surprised to see him last four years. It's no coincidence that people are starting to talk about the Lieutenant Governor and so forth.
The guy's poll numbers have dropped twenty-something points in TWO WEEKS just TWO MONTHS into his term. This defines "FUBAR."
It won't be long now before - if it hasn't already happened - a few of the capos of the Democrat Party have a "discussion" with this clown. Indeed, the field has already been prepared, "I need to take care of my wife, etc, etc."
Y'all ain't from here, are ya!
Ah, it's Massachusetts you dumb ass....
;-)
This guy is a nitwit. He offended the shorefront environmentalists for a measly thousand bucks? And he seems to have offended all the reporters in town too, they way they have started going after him.
I have a feeling that the Boston Irish get away with it because they all know each other, marry each others' cousins, and pay each other off. But this guy is an outsider.
Also, come to think of it, what's a former clintonoid doing as governor of Massachusetts? I thought that was the private turf of Jean Kerri and Teddy Kennedy and their allies, and both those guys hate the clintons.
Stranger and stranger every minute. I wasn't following Deval Patrick closely before he was elected. Which Mass. pols backed him? How did he get the nod?
The Moonbats backed him over the establishment choice (who, as I recall, was the State AG) and pushed him over the top in the primary.
As for why? He's an affirmative action pick. Most of the Moonbats I've met are, effectively, the biggest racists I've ever met - constantly entranced by the strange phenomenon of the "magical talking negro" and thus promoting black men of now obvious talent (IE - Barack Obama, Harold Ford, and Deval Patrick) at the expense of others - including, it goes without saying, actually talented black people.
This guy is a fiasco in office. I mean, literally, I don't think that I've ever seen someone screw up worse upon taking office.
I mean, we're talking about a liberal Democrats in Masschusetts. His ratings would probably have taken less of a fall if he'd used his inaugural address to argue for the "rights" of pedophiles.
Look's to me like the ghost of Whitey Bulger has changed his pigmentation and is being channeled by a former Clinton Administration political hack, now Governor.
Yes,he would...but he's a RAT.And it was just announced that his wife is being treated for "exhaustion" so he can't *possibly* be expected to leave office unless that Senate seat he's secretly coveting opens up.
"Rapists, polluters, and the like.
Know this. If you are eloquent, then we will protect you.
Hire Ropes and Gray, LLC, and if they lose
I will write a law overturning the verdict."
You're in a better position to know that I - but, from my reading, the "sick wife" story, combined with the subtle mentions of the Lt. Governor in all of these stories (someone put that idea into all of these reporters' heads) smacks of me of laying the groundwork for an honourable exit, if necessary.
"How sick is Deval Patrick's wife, and 60% of the people would rather have Tim Murrary as Governor anyways."
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